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To: Mariner

Love it.


3 posted on 07/11/2023 5:00:17 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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“Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine... These unexploded cluster munitions will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children for decades to come, long after the war—we pray—has ended,” Trump said

If cluster munitions are so evil, why do we have them in our stockpile?

Its ironic that the Obama Administration moved to retire cluster weapons while Trump stopped their destruction.

an Obama-era policy sought to gradually retire all U.S. cluster weapons with a dud-rate above 1%, leading to many such weapons being decommissioned or converted to other purposes, a move Biden expressed support for in 2006. However, this policy was canceled by the Trump administration.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a44465526/why-is-the-us-sending-ukraine-cluster-munitions/

n May 2008, then-Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull stated that the U.S. military relies upon cluster munitions as an important part of their war strategy.[137] Mull emphasized that "U.S. forces simply cannot fight by design or by doctrine without holding out at least the possibility of using cluster munitions."

9 posted on 07/11/2023 5:12:04 PM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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